Thursday 2nd Jan 2025
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. Thursday 2nd January 2025 was a good day & night for Astronomy. Clear views of the Sun during the day and a fantastic clear night. It was also an informal night too...
Solar Observing at the Pavilion – 11th May 2024
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. After a fantastic night of observing the Aurora, several CMHASD members took the opportunity to observe the huge sunspot AR664 that caused it, at the Parsonage Lane Pavilion the...
Informal Nights at the Society
A few photos showing what members get up to on our ‘informal nights’ at the Society. Activities range from observing, testing/setting up members’ latest equipment purchased, fixing members’ equipment, presentations, general chit chat...
CMHASD Informal/Observing Evening – 6th July 2023
Thursday 6th July was an informal night at the pavilion and some members took the opportunity to do some observing using Honor’s PST to observe the Sun & Jo’s Newtonian to observe Venus. Thankyou to Chairman John Archer and to Diane Clarke for...
Informal Night & UFO – 21st April 2022
Thursday 21st April 2022 was an informal night at the pavilion and some members took the opportunity to do some observing with some members viewing a very rare sight indeed. Chairman John Archer summed the evening up in his ebulletin to members dated 27th April 2022....
Moon and Venus 2020-02-27
Image taken by Jim Burchell during an observing evening at Sutton-at-Hone.
Informal Evening 2020-02-27
Another clear Thursday and an observing evening, below are a couple of images from the...
Informal Evening / Open Evening 2020/02/06
We had clear skies last Thursday (2020/02/06) and had many of the Societies Dobsonian telescopes out, a couple of members bought their own telescopes (both reflectors) and Leigh Slomer produced this image of the Great Orion Nebula...
AstroImageJ Demonstration
We had an informal meeting over Christmas where Martin took the members through using AstroImageJ (AIJ) he covered the following… Loading an image analysing stars in an image plate solving an image batch processing images to calibrate them aligning and...
Christmas Imaging Session
About a dozen members used the 16″ telescope over the Christmas period with Keith providing a demonstration of the set-up and use of the new CCD. The evening ended with cloud relatively early but they did get 10 light frames and below is a stack of these using...